"Much of what we learn about life is presented to us as small pieces of information. We take it, store it and either use it or disregard it. Painting for me is that exact process.

Ideas that I've either kept hidden or played around with unsuccessfully can still have a relevance or play some part in a composition. I never really look at the work as being finished although years of applying paint using mostly unconventional methods gives me an inkling of when to stop. Iconic images that I have selected to use in the past all seem to add to a narrative.

National flags, identity, nature and the use of how it is presented visually - not in a natural way - but in an unorthodox field of abstraction, issues of the day and those that have been running for years without resolution all inform the narrative of my work.

Painting is a pictorial diary, not using the written word, but with colour, texture and shape which tells a story, a visual history of life.

Incidental becomes a curiosity, just as in any mystery that can only be resolved by the onlooker (to a point). Placing diverse images together challenges a through process.

We make out own understanding of what we see, although that doesn't mean we have resolved it."

​John Ramsell, Spring 2017

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